Looking For A Post

I haven't been on in a while, but today I was thinking I'd like to see the pagan name anagrams that Nephele did up for me last year. I can't seem to find the post anywhere, did it get deleted? Is Nephele still around?

Well, I'm glad to know what went down. It sucks that this kind of thing happens, but that is the nature of the beast, especially on a site full of people who are already perhaps a little resistant to the idea of being restricted in expressing their beliefs.

On a personal level, I have pretty bad anxiety, so I try to avoid political discussions, but I know that a lot of people are very passionate about politics and feel compelled to engage. I don't begrudge them their discussions - I just also have zero desire to involve myself and I skip those posts entirely. I understand how it could be exhausting for someone who feels constantly confronted with political arguments, especially if they pop up in discussions that aren't directly tied into politics.

I'm not sure about the state of moderation here. Do they stop political tangents that show up in threads that they don't belong in? When I click on a thread about, say, connecting to the earth through eating salad, I do not want to end up reading a heated debate about neo-nazis. I suppose it gets more nuanced than that, for example if people start talking about the economics of farming and the effect on the planet and so on, so I imagine it must be difficult sometimes to tell at what point a moderator should actually step in.

Oh, yeah, I remember those days. I just ended up posting whatever I wanted and ignoring comments from certain individuals who trolled me a lot. Paganspace does say, "Last Reply by X."

I would just go, "Oh, it's the person who trolls me a lot. I'm going to go watch a movie, instead." In the end, I never actually read any of that. I ended up being blissfully ignorant to what was being said or what was going on.

Also, I ended up taking pleasure of people wasting their time on me with comments that I didn't even bother to read.

(Normally, I do try to actually read all the comments, but if comments are just going to be trolling me. What's the point? I got better things to do with my time.)

Paganism, particularly ancient, but also modern, has a lot to do with politics. Satanic panic for example and the old witchcraft laws. Banning such would be disastrous. Anyway, Neph was one of the older members here, probably been around the same time I have. She knew the game. She participated in the discussion, and she had been participating in political discussions for along time.

That said, I am actually disheartened to see her and Rose leave. I enjoyed both of their postings.